I’m going to be talking about my new series that I’ve started called The Gypsy Healer Series. In particular I will be focusing on book 2 which released today! Wolf of Stone is the follow up book to Into the Fae which released in June of 2014. Since releasing Into the Fae I have received a lot of comments on the fact that this series seems to be going in a much darker direction that my other two series, Elin and Grey Wolves. I’ve had tons of people ask me why that is and so I thought I’d just give my thoughts on the issue.

When I decided to do a spin off series from the Grey Wolves I was very concerned with making sure that I didn’t have characters that were like the Grey Wolves only with different names. I wanted them to have different issues and hopefully have things that some readers could relate to. Believe it or not I actually pray about my books before, during and after writing them. I want to make sure that I’m not just writing fiction, but that I’m writing something that impacts the reader on many levels. So as I began to write Into the Fae I prayed about the kinds of characters that would help meet readers where they were or even where they had once been. These characters have some very rough, dark history ranging from sexual abuse as a child, to bullying from their peers, and even dealing with living in the foster care system. Because they are YA books I try to be careful with how much details I give, but I also want to give enough that the readers are able to join the character in their struggle, pain, grief and then their healing process as well.

I knew it would be a risk to write a series with an overall darker feel, but I also felt very led to do it. I hope that I do my characters justice and that people see that no matter how far down they may be, there is always hope. I use a lot of parallels to Christianity because I’m a Christian but I never want to beat readers over the head with my faith. Because it is the whole basis for my life I can’t help but have influences from it in my writing. It is my prayer that even though these are fictions books, someone, if only one person, will be able to walk away from it knowing that they are loved, they are worth far more than they can imagine and that through their pain they can help others.

I do think that the Gypsy Healer Series is probably for a little older audience because of the subjects dealt with, though as always my books are fade to black in the romance department. I hope that this has shed light on why I went the direction I did with these books and truly hope if you choose to read them that you enjoy them.

Thank you!

Quinn Loftis

Dalton Black, a Canis lupis full of guilt and anger, never expected to find his true mate. Perhaps already slipping into madness, he had resigned himself to the fact that he would walk the earth without the other half of his soul. He was convinced that his sins where enough to keep the Great Luna from giving him such a blessing. He knew it was probably better that way. His past was as dark as his name and after three centuries of running from it, the memories were finally catching up to him.

But all of those resignations evaporated when he saw her broken and bloodied body lying on that altar. Though the man didn’t recognize her, the wolf did. Through battle and bloodshed he was able to save her from the evil that held her captive, but now he would need her to save him from himself.

Jewel Stone was wholly unaware of the ancient bloodlines of Gypsy Healers, mates to Canis lupis and protectors of the packs—much less that she carried that blood herself. But when a beautiful but deadly woman showed up in her home and ripped her from her realm, she knew her life would never be the same. Her mother, Gem, a fortune teller, had warned her that something was coming, that her life was about to change dramatically, but like everyone else, Jewel had dismissed her as a crazy person.

Jewel was the laughing stock of her school simply because Gem was her mother. And up until now, her life was one big disappointment after another. Instead of heeding her mother’s warning, she hid in her books, burying herself behind knowledge, both fact and fiction. She escaped into worlds created by others and filled her mind with facts of every kind in an effort to push away the hurtful words that others bombarded her with. Despite all of her knowledge and all of her fantastical stories, she never dreamed her own future would be full of adventure, danger, passion and the possibility of unconditional love. As she lay unconscious after her first bloody encounter in the fae realm, her only chance of survival lay in the hands of a man scarred by his past, disfigured both emotionally and physically, and beyond the reach of any who had tried to help him.

Can two broken people, who carry the other half of each other’s souls span the chasm between them and restore the innocence ripped from both their lives? Will they let the promise of healing love overcome the difference in age and experience, and the separation of species and realms? Or will they give in to the fear and doubt that would keep them from one another for eternity?

"This is a fantastic and clean love story with
mystery, danger, and adventure for anyone 13+. Definitely not your typical
paranormal read it is unique and refreshing and I can't wait to read the next
installment!!!" ~Anonymous Amazon Customer

"This book was simply amazing. It brings to
life the books of childhood fae in so many ways... a 5 STAR read from start to
finish" ~Random Musesomy (Amazon reviewer)

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Title: Molten Heart

Series: Molten Heart Saga Book 1

Author: L.L. Hunter

Genre: YA dystopian/ post- apocalyptic

Release Date: October 31st

Blurb

Forty years after the middle- east dropped

bombs on our country, we are now just starting to rebuild.

But a new danger threatens our small

community.

A group of men we call The Takers, have

returned to finish what they started ten years earlier.

So we leave.

My friends and I head to a safe house five

days away where there is food a plenty and the hope of a fresh start.

But we never will be out of danger.

And my heart will never be safe, not around

Lukas Green.

When I thought I couldn’t be broken any

further, I fear Lukas will break the wall around my heart down so far, my heart

I have put together a few different things for you to help celebrate MOLTEN HEART's release, including an very special surprise video featuring me! I am not much of a tech head, so i hope it turns out. Turn your volume up and tune in! I hope you like it!

And because i love you guys so so much, i have a surprise for you! Please see video below!

I hope you're as excited for MOLTEN HEART's release as i am! Don't hestitate to let me know when you finish. I'd love to know what you think!

Laura xx

An introspection from David.

Time: The beginning of FIRE IN THE WOODS

Fire in the Woods is told completely from Jess’s point of view. Since a lot of eyebrows have risen over David, I thought it would be fun so show a scene from his perspective. So here we go! This is the scene where Jess and David meet for the first time.

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The leaves crunched as I slipped to the forest floor.A strange sensation I would have liked to ponder, if I hadn’t just crash-landed on a hostile, alien world.

An airship howled overhead, but they didn’t see me. I’d won a few more minutes to rest. Leaning back, I ran my fingers along my sore arm. The blue markings on my lavender skin caught the light from the planet’s sun. I couldn’t see anything wrong, but I wasn’t a doctor. I wasn’t much of anything except lost, injured, and alone.

Something shifted the leaves in the distance.

Footsteps, coming closer. A native. I jumped to my feet and ran two steps, but a searing pain in my shoulder slapped me back to the forest floor.

The footsteps—closer.

I had no choice. I had to protect myself. I closed my eyes and reached out to the approaching being. A girl. Young.

What lousy luck. I’d never done well with girls on my own planet, let alone a strange, aggressive race. Still, I touched the recesses of her mind.

Her language: simple, easy to reconstruct. I pulled the information from her thoughts.

The footsteps stopped only inches from me and a scream echoed through the trees. The girl dropped to her knees behind the bushes, holding her head.

Had I done that to her? No matter. I needed to hide. I reached further within, sorting her cognizance until an image formed. She howled as I extracted her thoughts, and started my exteriation.

Pain shot through me: a burning, a piercing beyond what I imagined the process would inflict. I grabbed my head, holding myself together as my mind threatened to explode.

I screamed, and the girl leaned over the branches. Syllables formed on her lips, but I couldn’t decipher them yet. I repeated the words she used as she screamed, hoping they would be enough to hold her back before…

The pain ceased, as if I’d washed it away will cool running water. My hands, no longer lavender, but a strange, pinkish tan. I was no longer Erescopian. At least on the outside.

“Are you okay?” she asked.

The words, so odd sounding, and still completely undiscernible.

Another aircraft flew overhead. But they wouldn’t see me. They weren’t looking for a native.

The girl reached for me. “Are you hurt?”

I backed away. Her form, so strange—with long, flowing strands cascading down the sides of her face. I reached for my ear and found similar, shorter strands. How odd I must have looked.

“What’s your name?” Her words scrawled through my mind as I translated.

“Your name?” I repeated, stalling as I tried to find an answer.

“Yeah, you know. Your name.” She pointed to her chest. “I’m Jess. And you are?”

I sorted through her thoughts, and grasped a name appropriate for her world. “David?”

“Are you asking me or telling me?”

I smiled, relishing in the genuine, friendly nature of this creature. Odd, since this race had been deemed incapable of socialization or growth.

There must have been a mistake. But if there had been, it was a terrible one.

FIRE IN THE WOODS is a YA scifi romance, available wherever books are sold.